Nolan and Coghlan Added to Largest Ever Irish Team for Euro Indoors

28 February 2005

Athletics Ireland are pleased to announce that a further two athletes have been added to the team for the forthcoming European Indoor Championships in Madrid on March 4-6th making the final number sixteen, the largest Irish team ever for these Championships.

James Nolan (1500m) and Peter Coghlan (60m H) were both added after showing some outstanding form in the past week. Nolan, a silver medallist from the event in 2000, ran a season's best of 3:41.91 in Madrid on Thursday while Coghlan won a 55m hurdles event in 7.26sec at Clemson University in the US on Saturday night, not far off his National Record of 7.21 in this rarely contested distance.

The event was given a welcome boost when RTE announced that they will be showing extended highlights over the three nights of the Championship.

Irish Team for European Indoor Championships, Madrid March 4th-6th.

Women

60 Ailis McSweeney (Leevale), Emily Maher (KCH)

200 Ciara Sheehy (DCH)

1500 Roisin McGettigan (Sli Chulainn)

60H Derval O'Rourke (Leevale)

HJ Deirdre Ryan (UCD)

Men

60 Jer O'Donoghue (Leevale)

200 Paul Hession (Athenry), Paul Brizzel (Ballymena & Antrim)

400 David Gillick (DSD), Rob Daly (DSD), David McCarthy (Le Cheile)

1500 James Nolan (UCD)

3000 Alistair Cragg (Clonliffe), Mark Carroll (Leevale)

60mH Peter Coghlan (Crusaders)

Team Manager: Paddy Marley (Clonliffe Harriers)

Team Coach: Paddy Fay (Raheny Shamrock)

Performance Director: Elaine Fitzgerald (Waterford AC)

Coaching Director: Stephen Maguire

Doctor: Dr. Brendan O’Brien AAI Medical Doctor

Physiotherapist: Nessa Smith AAI Physiotherapist

http://www.madrid2005.org/